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County holds agency funds BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
With Alcorn County pinching pennies to make it through the next few months, outside agencies that rely on county funds are forced to join in the belt-tightening. In a tense discussion that turned personal at times, the shelter’s board
president, Kayo McPeters, made a plea on Monday to receive the regular monthly allotments of funding, which have been delayed, to help meet payroll. No action was taken on the request. As it has done in other years, the
“Everybody here knows that the county is having difficult financial times.” Greg Younger Chancery Clerk
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Alcorn awards contracts
Basket Fund donations now arriving
BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
The spirit of giving this Christmas season is alive and well in the Alcorn County area. Donations are now arriving for the 21st Annual Corinth Rotary Club / Daily Corinthian Christmas Basket Fund. A $23,000 fund raising goal was set so 1,000 food baskets can be given to local families on Saturday, Dec. 17 at the Crossroads Arena. The newspaper has received $1,105 in donations. Donations include $40 from Dean and Jennie Pearce in honor of Christine Greening, Elizabeth Hammon and Mildred Norman; $50 from Flora and Ronnie Brand in honor of great-grandson Andrew; $60 from Margaret Pittman in memory of Arnold and Ruth Pittman; $30 from Barbara Burns O’Finan in honor of CHS Cogo Group, Class of 1975. Christmas Basket Fund donations can be made “in honor of” or “in memory of” a special person or persons. The tribute will be published in the Daily Corinthian. Donations can be brought by the newspaper office or mailed to: Daily Corinthian, Attn.:Christmas Basket Fund, P.O. Box 1800, Corinth, MS 38835.
Visitor’s Bureau. Organizers are offering a total of $1,000 in prize money for the best window paintings. Thirteen winners will see a share of the award money: one first place prize of $250; one second place prize of $150; one third place prize of $100; and ten $50 awards. Each artist will be eligible for one prize. “We need folks to get out there and turn these things in and vote,” said Chartres.
The Alcorn County Board of Supervisors awarded two construction contracts Monday for one of the county’s longest-planned projects — a major upgrade for the Five Points intersection. Parsons Earthworks of Iuka was low bidder for the for the road work at $850,000, and Buz Plaxico Dover Service took the utility relocation portion with a bid of $110,218.97. The junction east of Corinth includes Kendrick Road, Henderson Road, Pittman Road and Farmington Baptist Church Road. The project has had an on-again, off-again history. First District Supervisor Lowell Hinton, who committed extra funds to make the project happen, is thrilled to see it finally going into the hands of contractors. “A lot of people have anticipated it and have approached me about when we are going to do it,” he said. “I know people are going to be excited.” The five intersecting points will be reduced to four with elimination of the Pittman
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Staff photo by Bobby J. Smith
Sixteen-year-old artist Heather Pauss works on the window painting at the Daily Corinthian office. Pauss, a lifelong artist, is a junior at Corinth High School.
Window contest voting begins BY BOBBY J. SMITH bsmith@dailycorinthian.com
It’s time to cast ballots in the inaugural “Deck the Town” holiday-themed window painting contest. “What we’d like to emphasize is for people to go into these businesses and get a ballot,” said contest organizer Tom Chartres, a board member of the Community Development Council. “They can leave it at any other participating business — they don’t have to bring it back where they started.”
The voting period continues until Monday, Dec. 19. Winners will be announced and prizes given on Dec. 21. Winners will be decided by a ballot system. Entries will be listed on a ballot and numbered for identification purposes. Ballots will be available only at participating businesses. Anyone who wants to vote in the contest can pick up a ballot from one of the businesses and submit it at a participating business, The Alliance or the office of the Corinth Area Convention &
School, ministry team up for Christmas Day meal
Staff photo by Bobby J. Smith
Organizers of the Crossroads Christmas Day meal met for a planning session on Monday at Alcorn Central High School. Shown here (from left) include Sheriff Ben Caldwell, Living Free Ministries founders Tommy and Marea Wilson, Alcorn Central Principal Brandon Quinn and Alcorn Central teachers Amanda Davis and Teena Hatfield.
BY BOBBY J. SMITH bsmith@dailycorinthian.com
No one needs to spend Christmas alone. This is the idea that led to the creation of the Crossroads Christmas Day meal. “Whatever the reason is, we don’t want them to spend Christmas by themselves like nobody cares,” said Tommy Wilson, founder of Living Free Ministries, a faith-based addiction recovery center in Corinth. “It doesn’t matter whether they’re an inmate out there wearing green and
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TCM Collections of Mississippi opens a new office on Franklin Street in Corinth.
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white stripes or a guy wearing a pair of blue jeans.” After four years of holding the annual traditional Christmas meal at Living Free Ministries just off U.S. Highway 72 behind Magnolia Funeral Home, the event is growing into a new home at Alcorn Central High School. Wilson and his partner in ministry, wife Marea, said it is a great blessing for Alcorn Central to open its doors to the meal.
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Anica “Tootie” Young, a Corinth High School junior, is chosen as a member of the National Youth Advisory Council for the non-profit Do Something aimed at inspiring youth.
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